Let’s not kid ourselves, TP basically only exists as a tool to communicate with your coach. If I were self coached, I would not waste my money.
Analysis tools are weak sauce at best compared to, well almost anything else out there: Golden Cheetah (free), Garmin (free), Strava, TrainerRoad, Xert, Intervals.icu, etc.
TP seems to be stuck in 2010 with few added features (the only real improvement is the workout builder which is basically a copy of the Garmin version). No incentive for management to add features as long as coaches and athletes feel like they are locked into the platform for communication.
I disagree with most of that…except that…
TP is ripe for competition. but many have tried, most have failed, none have succeeded. As dd rightly points out it is highly entrenched in a very small market…but, requires heavy investment to get over the hump.
However,
Strava has no valid analytics.
Garmin analytics are not comparable to tp.
Golden cheetah is good.
Today’s plan was the closest, but has now been shuttered. The ui was even more horrendous than tp…classic engineer first ux.
Only golden cheetah has well defined analytics. Everyone else has black box, trust me bro tools that have no scientific backing or justification. That includes Garmin and their First beat crap. I know how tp works, I know it’s scientific basis and history, and I can replicate it in a spreadsheet if I so choose. I also know it’s limitations. These things matter.
I’ve used TP for over 25 years, since it was trainingBible.com. There are lots of things that I hate about it. In the past I’ve met with the now departed Gear Fisher about capabilities and future directions. It was hugely telling to me when Gear left the company. I’ve submitted countless feature improvements and suggestions over the last 3 decades.
I’ve tried to jump ship from tp many times. As crap as it is, there isn’t anything else as good…Unless the standalone app experience of golden cheetah is your thing.